Continuous Improvement Specialist

• Location: Budapest
• 60% Remote working
• Job type: Permanent Full time

Our Team:

Our ambition: deliver best-in-class enterprise services enabling Sanofi to chase the miracles of science to improve people's lives. Sanofi has been building the foundations of enterprise services over the past few years. With the creation of the global business unit Business Operations one year ago, we have elevated our commitment to innovation and excellence. Business Operations plays a key role for Sanofi in modernizing the way we work.

An expert leadership team, passionate about leading high performance. We are building for the long term. We will bring people together - many of them in our four hub locations around the world - which will simplify processes, break down barriers and rapidly cross-fertilise the best ideas across Sanofi.

Our critical success factors:

We have identified three key drivers:

Community - Building a vibrant team that will attract and engage talent, with four global hubs. Excellence - Simplifying, standardizing and continuously improving processes to capture synergies, scale effects and productivity improvements. Digitalization - Enabling transparency, data-driven decision-making support, agility and rapid innovation across Sanofi's entire value chain.

About the job

The Continuous Improvement Specialist provides support in standardizing and transforming our end-to-end process.

The role reports to the Head of Continuous Improvement BUD Hub.

Key responsibilities

• Provide Continuous Improvement (CI) support to Business Operations department.
  • Contribute to the CI framework.
  • Support tools utilization for various CI initiatives or programmes.
  • Contribute to some CI initiatives under the supervision of a CI Lead peer.
• Disseminate CI culture across Business Operations department
  • Contribute to CI training programs
  • Contribute to CI Culture elevation at Hub level, like organizing events and supporting the CI recognition program
• Contribute to CI governance with various stakeholders
  • Provide the right factual data to Process Owners so they can take the best decisions.

About you

• Experience:
  • 1-3 years experience in GBS / BPO Shared Services industry or consulting industry.
  • Certification in CI methodology (Green belt).
  • Previous experience in business process in scope (like Finance or HR or Procurement or Manufacturing & Supply or R&D etc.)
  • Previous contribution to CI programs with tangible outcomes.

• Soft skills:
  • Excellent written and oral communication & inter-personal skills, ability to develop high-quality documents
  • Entrepreneurial mindset, and ability to work independently and take initiative under pressure.
  • Strong collaboration mindset with ability to work with a group of people with different functional expertise.
  • Efficient analytical skills, attention to details.

• Technical skills: Knowledge/certification on Continuous Improvement methodology (ideally Lean Green Belt)

• Education: Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in Business Administration or Science

• Languages: Fluent in English is mandatory. Other language is a plus.

Why choose us?

• An international work environment, in which you can develop your talent and realize ideas and innovations within a competent team
• An attractive, market-oriented salary and cafeteria benefits
• Flexible home office policy, with a possibility to work up to 60% of time from home / where you can easily schedule your office days
• Work from an "Office of the Year 2020" finalist office
• Collective life and accident insurance
• Yearly medical check-up
• An individual and well-structured introduction and training of new employees and we will dedicate a Buddy for you to better navigate in your first weeks
• Your own career path within Sanofi. Your professional and personal development will be supported purposefully
• Join a great community & special events (Monthly Board Game Nights, Summer Events, Well-Being Lectures & Sport Clubs)

Pursue Progress. Discover Extraordinary.

Progress doesn't happen without people - people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. You can be one of those people. Chasing change, embracing new ideas and exploring all the opportunities we have to offer. Let's pursue progress. And let's discover extraordinary together.

At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or gender identity.

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Discover our Code of Conduct, that serves as the moral compass that guides us when chasing the miracles of science to improve people's lives. Please ensure to have read this document before applying.

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